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A FEW copies of this paper have been printed for private 
distribution. See also the articles entitled "The Hassam Family" 
and "The Hassam Family, Additional Notes," published by me 
in the New-England Historical and Genealogical Register 
for October, 1870 (xxiv. 414) [xxvii. 317], and July, 1889 
(xliii. 320) ; "Notes and Queries concerning the Hassam and 
Hilton Families," Boston, David Clapp & Son, 1880, privately 
printed, and " The Hassam Family," Boston, David Clapp & Son, 
1896, privately printed. J. t. h. 



THE HASSAM FAMILY. 



H ASS AM is a corruption of the English surname Horsham. In 
the unsettled orthography of our early records, it appears not only 
in its proper form Horsham, but quite as frequently Horsom, Hor- 
some, Horsum, Horssum, Horsam, Hossom, Hossum, Hossam, 
Hassom, Hassam, Hassum, Hoshom, Hashom, Harsham, Harshom, 
Harshum, Hassham, and Hasham, and sometimes Harsome, Har- 
som and Harsum.* In regard to pronunciation, Hassam now con- 
forms to the present mode of spelling, although some aged people 
still adhere to the old pronunciation Horsham. 

Among the lists of the names and ages of the emigrants who left 
the port of London during the year ending Christmas, 1635, is one 
headed as follows : f 

"16 Aprilis 1 635. Theis p'ties hereafter expressed are to be transported 
to the Island of Providence imbarqued in y® Expectacion Cornelius Billinge 
M^ having taken the oaths of Allegeance and Supremacie ; As likewise 
being conformable to the Church of England ; whereof they brought testi- 
monie from the Ministers and Justices of Peace, of their Abodes." Among 
the names in this list are 

Edward Horsham 14 
Elizab : Horsham 16 
Dorcas Horsham 40. 

The island of Providence |, in the Caribbean Sea, was taken 
by the Spaniards in 1641 and the settlers were driven off. Most 
of them sought refuge in the other English colonies, and some un- 
doubtedly came to New-England. 

At a special Court sitting in Boston 27 April 1660, § John Hor- 
sam, master of the ship " Sampson," then in the harbor of Boston, 
recovered judgment against the owners for his own wages and the 
wages of the ship's company. 

In the list \\ of " The names of such Ship^ & masters that have 
Come in & Gon out of our Harbor & Given bond for His ma'^'^ 
Customes " is the following : " 16 10""° 61 The Ship Salamander 
of boston burden 70 tonn bound for London Jno Horsam The 
Ginis." 

* It is probable that Hersam, or Hersom, a surname not uncommon in some parts of 
New-Enplancl, is of the same origin. Christoplier Hersom wns one of tlie early settlers of 
Wenham, and had a grant of land there 8lh day of 5th month, 1643, when it was part of 
Salem and was called Enon. The inventory of the estate of Mary Hersome of Wenham, 
widow, is dated 2d 7th mo. 1646. 

t Drake's Founders of New- England, p. 104. 

J New-England Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 1899 (liii. 358). 
2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xiii. 4. 

§ Suffolk Deeds, iii., 365. Neto- England Historical and Genealogical Register for Jalr 
1877 (xxxi., 331). ' ^ y y J 

II Mass. Archives, Ix., 33. N.-E. Hist, and Gen. Register for July, 1877 (xxxi., 331). 




6 THE HASSAM FAMILY. • 

Samuel Horsham of the Island of Barbadoes, mercliant, agent 
and factor to John Horsham 
and Company, merchants, of ^-^ \ 
Plymouth, England, gives a/ )i 
letter of attorney, April 15,1 \ 

1678, to Lieut. Richard WayV^ ^ 

of Boston in New England to 

bring suit against Nicholas Barbadoes, April 15, 1678. 

Shapleigh of Kittery, Me.* 

In 16G5 Jeremie Hossom was taxed at Cocheco, and the names 
Horsum, Ilorsam, Hossom and Horsom are of not infrequent occur- 
rence in the records of Dover and the neighboring towns of New- 
Hampshire and Maine. f 

1. William Hassam,' — or Horsham as he himself wrote the 
'/^ /^ /7j^ name, — to whose descend- 

^^-'-^'^^^J/^O-^ ^G^.ynlt¥l^iini% this paper more partic- 
^^ y ularly relates, settled at an 

Salem, July 31, 1684. early period in Manchester, 

Mass. , in that part of the town called Newport. He had sev- 
eral gi-ants of land there, the first being prior to April, 1684. 
In his petition to the Court in Salem July 31, 1684, | he 
states that he is a stranger here, with no relations or friends, 
although in England and elsewhere several of no mean con- 
dition." He is frequently mentioned in the town records, 
where his name -appears in no fewer than thirteen of the differ- 
ent modes of spelling above given. He was constable in 
1693, in 1696 one of the surveyors of highways and fence 
viewers, in 1705 culler of fish and one of the surveyors of 
highways, and in 1706 one of the persons appointed to pre- 
vent depredations on the town's common land. He m. in 
Marblehead, Dec. 4, 1684, Sarah, dau. of Samuel Allen,|l 
of Manchester, and d. in Manchester about 1735. Their 
children, all born in Manchester, were : — 

2. i. William, b. Feb. 1, 1685. 

ii. Samuel, b. Aug. 13, 1688; d. before 1706. 

8. iii. John, b. Dec. 7, 1692. 

iv. Sarah, b. March 28, 1695. 

V. Benjamin, b. Oct. 2, 1697. 

4. vi. Joseph, b. Jan. 1, 1699-1700. 

* Middlesex Court Records, iii., 291. N.-B. Hist, and Gen. Register, xKxi., 331. 
The will of John Horsham of Plymouth, Co. Devon, England, merchant, dated 11 Dec. 
1688 was proliatcd 6 July 1689 at Doctor's Commons, London. , , n- , , 

John llorsham.Esq., of Barbadoes, was one of the subscribers to Schomburgk s History 
of Barbadoes, London, 1S4S. 

f N'.-E. Uist. and Gen. Ref/ister,xx\v.,A\A. . ,oon /■ ^-^ 

t Essex Court Files xlii., 28-34. N.-E. Hist, and Gen. Register, July, 1880 (xxxiv., 

[ Genealogy of the Allen Family. Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., xxiv., 226. 



THE HASSAM FAMILY. 7 

5. vii. Jonathan, b. Aug. 17, 1702; d. Feb. 21, 1754. 
viii. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 11, 1704. 
ix. Samuel, b. Oct. 22, 1706. 
X. Hannah, b. May 26, 1709 ; m. in Wenham, Nov. 9, 1736, 

Thomas Senter, of Wenhara. 
xi. William, b. Dec. 9, 1711-12. 

2. William'' Hassam ( William'), b. Feb. 1, 1G85 ; had a Avife 

Sarah, and d. probably before 1711, certainly before 1727. 
Their children, both born in Manchester, were : — 

i. Mary, b. April 15, 1707. 
ii. Jacob, b. Sept. 3, 1709. 

3. JoHN^ Hassam (William^), b. Dec. 7, 1692; m, Jane Ben- 

nett, by whom he had children, both born in Manchester : — 

i. Mart, b. Sept. 17, 1714. 

ii. John, b. Sept. 26, 1717; had a son Samuel, "born of Lydia 
Knights," Feb. 19, 1739-40. 

He m. again Xov. 6, 1729, Elizabeth Knowlton, widow of John 
Knowlton, and dau. of William and Margaret Hilton.* She sur- 
vived him and m. John Day, Sen., of Manchester, in Wenham, 
IS^ov. 20, 1744, and d. a widow, in Manchester, about 1792, aged 
about 95 years. The names of only two of the chikben of John^ 
and Elizabeth appear in the Manchester Records of Births, but the 
dates of the baptisms of the others are found in the Chm'ch Records. 

iii. Lydia, b. Sept. 11, 1730. 

iv. William, b. Dec. 7, 1731 ; lost at sea, 1748. 

V. Eunice, bap. Aug. 12, 1733. 

vi. Jeremiah, bap. April 17, 1737. 

vii. Hannah, bap. April 30, 1738. 

viii. Samuel, bap. June 17, 1739. 

ix. Elizabeth, bap. April 25, 1741. 

G. X. Josiah, bap. March 20, 1742 ; lost at sea March, 1767. 

4. Joseph* Hassam ( William'), b. Jan. 1, 1699-1700; m. 

Oct. 4, 1727, Abigail Stone, and had chikh-cn, all born in 
Manchester : — 

i. Benjamin, b. May 17, 1729; lost at sea 1749, on a voyage 

to Lisbon. 
ii. Susanna, b. July 29, 1733. 
iii. Susanna, b. Oct. 27, 1734. 
iv. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 18, 1741 ; intentions of marriage with 

George Rapall, of Marblehead, published Feb. 17, 1764. 

* N.-E. Hist, and Gen. Rpghler, April, 1877 (xxxi., 179), and J;in., 1S82 (xxxvi., 40). 
Notes and Queries concerning the Hassam and Hiltoii Families, Boston, David Clapp 
& Son, 1880. Piivarelv printed. 

The Hilton Family. Boston, David Clapp & Son, 1896. Privately printed. 




8 THE HASSAM FAMILY. 

5. Jonathan^ Hassam (William^), h. Aug. 17, 1702, master 

mariner ; m. Aug. 10, 

' ^7/ ^y/ 1727, Mary Bennett, 

4!^/^^C^///^^(ZX/i^/Ma^n^and d. Feb. 21, 1754. 
Cy She d. 1762, set. 55. 

Salem, Jan. 26, 1747-8. Their children, all 

born in Manchester, were : 

i. Sarah, b. Dec. 25, 1727; m. April 19, 1749, Ezeldel 

Allen.* 
ii. Jonathan, b. March 5, 1729-30. His intentions of marriage 

with Elizabeth Knowlton published Dec. 2, 1752 ; never m., 

lost at sea Nov. or Dec, 1752. 
iii. Mart, b. Ang. 13, 1733; m. Bowles. 

iv. AjmA, b. Aug. 12, 1735; d. Sept. 23, 1735. 

V. Jacob, b. Feb. 5, 1736-7. 

vi. Lydia, b. May 11, 1739 ; m. Crispin Joynt,t Jan. 8, 1761, 

and d. about 1769. 
vii. Samuel, b. June 24, 1741 ; d. March 11, 1749-50. 
viii. James, bap. June 26, 1743. 

ix. John, b. March 27, 1744—5 ; drowned at Louisbourg, 

1759. 

7. X. Joseph, b. Jan. 25, 1747-8 ; d. Sept. 22, 1831. 

8. xi. William, b. Aug. 11, 1752; d. April 9, 1833. 

6. JosiAtf Hassam (John,^ William^), m. Sarah Cross, Jan. 2, 

1764, and was lost at sea March, 1767. His Avidow m. 
Jan. 2, 1772, Benjamin Haskell. Children of Josiah^ and 
Sarah, b. in Manchester, were : 

i. Sarah, b. June 7, 1765 ; m. Benjamin Jones, Sept. 10, 1795, 
and d. widow, Jan. 7, 1846. 

9. ii. JosiAH, b. Nov. 26, 1766; drowned about 1829. 

7. Joseph^ Hassam {Jo7iat/ian,^ William^), b. Jan. 25, 1747-8 ; 

m. March 13, 1770, Elizabeth Tewksbury, and d. Sept. 22, 
1831. She d. Oct. 27, 1839, at. 89. Their childi-en, all 
born in Manchester, were : — 

i. Elizabeth, b. May 9, 1771 ; m. Capt. Wm. Tuck, Nov. 13, 

1831, and d. Aug. 4, 1844. 
ii. MoLLT, b. Nov. 7, 1774; m. (1) David Allen.t April 15, 

1817; m. (2) Israel Dodge, and d. widow, Sept. 15, 1846. 
iii. Lydia, b. Feb. 19, 1780 ; m. John Glover, Sept. 16, 1802. 

iv. Sarah, b. March 1, 1788 ; d. April 4, 1803. 

* Genealogy of the Allen Family. Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., xxiv., 231. 

t Crispin Joj'nt was not a native of Manclicster, but was bronght home, when a hoj, 
from some foreign port, by Capt. Jonathan Hassam, whose daughter Lydia he afterwards 
married. 

X Genealogy of the Allen Family. Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., xxv., 45. 



THE HASSAM FAMELT. 9 

8. William^ Hassam {Jonathan,^ William^), b. Aug. 11, 1752 ; 

master mariner. His intentions of marriage with Klizabeth, 
dau. of Ambrose Allen,* were published July 22, 1775, 
but he was seized by a press-gang shortly after and served 
nearly five years on board a British frigate during the greater 
part of the revolutionary war. He then succeeded, with a 
number of others, in making his escape, and was published 
the second time April 29, 1780, and m. May 15, 1780. He 
d. AprU 9, 183a. t His wife d. Feb. 10, 1833. Their 
children, all born in Manchester, were : — 

i. "William, b. May 4, 1781 ; lost at sea about 1803. 
10. ii. Jonathan, b. May 23, 1784; d. Jan. 14, 1859. 

iii. Betsey, b. Oct. 11, 1786; m. Benjamin Leach, Nov. 4, 

1810, and d. widow, Oct. 4, 1859. 
iv. Nancy, b. Nov. 10, 1788 ; m. (1) Jacob Cheever,^ Nov. 26, 

18i2 ; m. (2) Samuel Cheever, Oct. 10, 1819 ; and d. April 

5, 1871. 

9. JosiAH"* Hassam (Josiah,^ John,'' William^), b. Nov. 26, 

1766; m. Sally May, Dec. 3, 1789, and was drowned at 
Boston, about 1829. She d. Oct. 12, 1853. Their chil- 
dren, all born in Manchester, were : — 

i. Sally, b. Aug. 18, 1791 ; m. Jacob H. Dow, Jan. 18, 1819, 

and d. May 4, 1881. 
ii. Betsey, b. Aug. 13, 1794; d. Jan. 31, 1879. 
iii. JosiAH, b. Aug. 19, 1797; d. unm. Sept. 1824, at City 

Point, Va. 
iv. Aukelia, b. May 11, 1800 ; fell, when about ten years of age, 

from the gallery of the meeting-house, then building, into 

the cellar, and received injuries which rendered her insane 

until her death, Sept. 24, 1865. 

10. Jonathan* Hassam (WiUiam,^ Jonathan,'^ William^), b. 

May 23, 1784; master mariner; was master of a vessel 
before he had arrived at the age of twenty-one, and was very 
successful in running to and from the French and Mediter- 
ranean portg ^ y/ ^^ ^ 

through the H^m^im^ci^ ^a/^^^^ny 

English >y ^ 

blockading ^,1^ ^^ 

squadrons. Naples, Aug. 20, 1809. 

He was in Naples in the summer of 1809, in command of the 
Joanna, of Salem, but was captured Aug. 23, of that year, 
while running the blockade of the former port, by the Eng- 

* Genealogy of the Allen Family. Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., xxiv., 237. 
t See the obituary notice in tho Columbian Centinel, April 19, 1833. 
X N. E. Hist, and Gen. Register, April, 1879 (xxxiii., 164) ; July, 1882;(xxxTi., 306); 
April, 1884 (xxxviii., 170) ; and Jan., 1887 (xli., 6.5). 
The Cheever Family. Boston, David Clapp & Son, 1896. Privately printed. 



IQ THE HASSAM FAiMTLT. 

lish man-of-war Espoir, Robert Mitford commander, and 
carried into Malta, Avliere a prize court declared the capture 
illegal and ordered the restoration of the vessel and cargo. 
On'^a subsequent voyage he was taken in the Bay of Biscay, 
by an English ship-of-the-line, to which he and his crew were 
transferred, while a prize crew was put on board of the 
American vessel, Avhich was ordered into Portsmouth. The 
next night a terrible gale arose. The man-of-war was badly 
crippled, and was with the utmost difficulty kept afloat, but 
in the height of the storm Capt. Hassam refused to order his 
crew to work the pumps. The prize was never heard of 
afterwards, and must have gone down with all on board. 
He was captured still another time in the Mediterranean. 
He m. Oct. 22, 1808, Sally, dau. of John Cheever.* She 
d. Auo-. 19, 1848, and he m. (2) 1849, Mary, widow of 
Thomas's Smith, and d. Jan. 14, 1859. She d. Feb. 24, 
1867. He had eight children, all by his first wife and all 
born in Manchester : — 

11. i. John, b. Sept. 4, 1809 ; d. Aug. 3, 1885. 

Sally, b. May 25, 1811 ; m. Jeremiah Danforth, May 24, 

^ 1832, and d. April 28, 1855. 
William, b. July 26, 1813 ; d. Oct. 29, 1832. 
Jonathan, b. Sept. 3, 1817 ; was a trader in N. Y. City, and 
d. June 15, 1843, at Mobile, Ala., on his return from a voyage 
to Europe, undertaken for impaired health. 
Elizabeth, b. Jan. 17, 1819 ; d. Sept. 2, 1821. 
Samuel, b. April 17, 1820; d. Jan. 17, 1847. 
Henry, b. July 11, 1822; d. Portland, Oregon, June 2, 

1891. 
viii. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 8, 1827. 

11. John' Hassam {Jonathan' William,'' Jonathan,^ William}), 
b. Sept. 4, 1809 ; m. in Manchester, May 15, 1836, Abby, 
dau. of Capt. Amos Hilton,! of Manchester. He went to 
Boston when a lad of fourteen and learned the trade of a 
y book-binder, but 

^ yf OlA^ ^ a ^ soon after attain- 

^^-^^^ //Z2X.^^^ i^g l^ig ^^jority 

1876. began to turn his 

attention to real estate, and, after a brief residence in 
New York, finally established himself in Boston as a real 
estate broker. In this field his prudence, forethought and 

• ^.-E. Hist, and Gen. Register, April, 1879 (xxxiii., 164); July, 1882 (xxxvi., 305); 
Anril 1884 fxxxviii., 170) ; and Jan., 1887 (xli., 66). 
^ TheChe^er Family! 'Boston, David Clanp & Son, 1896. Pr^^tely printed 

t .V. E. Hist, mid Gen. Register, April, 1877 (xxxi., 179) and Jan., 1882 (xxxvi., 40). 

kotes and Queries concerning the Hassam and Hilton Families. Boston, David Clapp & 

^^TaIjIL JS\7y. ^BoSon, David Clapp & Son, 1896. Privately printed. 



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vii. 




THE HASSAM FAIVIILY. 11 

business sagacity soon brought him well deserved success. 
During the later years of his life he had practically retired 
from active work and devoted himself principally to the care 
of trust property and the management of estates. He was 
greatly respected for his integrity and unswerving honesty. 
He d. in Boston, Aucr. 3, 1885.* Children of John and 
Abby, all born in Boston : — 

12. i. John Tyler, b. Sept. 20, 1841. 

ii. Abby Hilton, b. Oct. 21, 1843; d. in Boston, March 

24, 1901. 
iii. Frederick William, b. Aug. 14, 1851. 



12. John Tyler® Hassam (John,^ Jonathan,*' William,'^ Jona- 
than,^ William'^), b. in Boston, Sept. 20, 1841; lawyer; 
graduated at Har- ^ 

vard College 1863 ; Vn J Ij 

first Lieut. Seventy- ^-^U n/^%, J, ri^iCT^^'wv 

fifth u. s. c. \., ( y 

1863-4 ; admitted ^^ ^^^^ 

to the Suffolk bar 

1867 ; member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 
New-England Historic Genealogical Society, American His- 
torical Association and other historical societies ; author of 
many historical, genealogical and antiquarian papers. He 
m. in Salem, Feb. 14, 1878, Nelly Alden Batchelder, dau. 
of Dr. John Henry Batchelder of Salem. Child : — 

i. Eleanor, b. in Boston, March 20, 1879. 



Richard Pearce and Sarah Hassam (probably Sarah* Hassam) 
m. in Manchester, Mass., April 4, 1717. 

William Jones and Sarah Hassam (probably widow of William* 
Hassam) m. in Manchester, Mass., Dec. 29, 1720. 

Nathaniel Waldron, of Wenham, and Sarah Hassam, of INIan- 
chester, Mass. (probably widow of William' Hassam), m. in 
Manchester, Mass., May 14, 1735. 

Joseph Picket Jr. and Mary Horsum (probably dau. of John* 
Hassam) m. in Beverly, Mass., June 12, 1738. 

* N.-E. Hist, and Gen. Regixter, xl., 132. 



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